Manufacturer: Carr China Company
User: Shawsheen Restaurant
Date of pasta bowl: circa 1920s – 1930s

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Notes: The Shawsheen Restaurant was located at 45 Haverhill Street in Andover, Mass. Its original use was as a restaurant/cafeteria with six bowling alleys in the basement and a 500-seat theater for cinema. And the building also housed the Crystal Ballroom, which was open for dancing a couple of times a week. The restaurant would have catered for the ballroom, too.

Across the street from the restaurant was Shawsheen Mills with 1,700 workers. The cafeteria was originally built to serve that population, but due to its success it was quickly opened to the public as well.

We would have thought that this china was made in 1922, with the opening of the facility. It is clearly an early Carr backstamp. But we also have the same soup bowls made by Syracuse China, date coded 1922, so the date of production is unknown.

Contributors:
Susan and Ed Phillips